in fact, i think chavez won 13 of 14 elections. you know, i think he's going to be mourned as a national figure who changed venezuela forever. you have no idea how bad it was before him. the per capita dropped for 40 years straight. he represents hope and change. >> i also talked to him about his latest showtime documentary series called "the untold history of the united states" and it aims to give viewers a peek into lessons they didn't learn in school. the project has received its share of criticism from the likes of the "new york times." i asked him why he decided to spend the last five years working on this project. >> one has to wake up in life. i feel like i grew up very privileged in new york in a republican family, conservative. i went to vietnam, as you know, and i felt like my life in the last 30 years has become less and less hypnotized and i wasn't sleep-walking. the more i learned, the more i wanted to share with my audience in feature films. as i went on and made more histories on or let's say historical dramas really